Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

All the world’s a-twitter: will the writer’s strike force production of High School Musical 3 and The Hannah Montana Movie to be postponed?
Read it … and weep! Oh the humanity!

Jim Hill (an animation production expert who specializes in Disney) shares the grim news coming out of Burbank: unless the WGA returns to work early […]

Well, perhaps the largest moving image production in Messiah College’s history wrapped this last Tuesday. Erick Fix’s In Heroic Fashion used the RED One Camera, a Fisher 10 Dolly with lots of track, a 7 foot Jib Arm mounted on the dolly, sets, costumes, multiple locations in Harrisburg & the College, and a large […]

Yes, it’s true! One of only 100 RED One cameras released since August 28th, 2007 has made its way to Messiah College! Erick Fix, a senior film concentration student rented one of them from Indie Rentals for his senior independent study film. Here it is:

It’s quite a camera, but right now these […]

Benedetto Croce was one of the last of the third wave of Hegelians who struggled to develop a renewed approach to history and practice in the face of Marx’s hijacking of the dialectical enterprise. He is not often read these days since his writings were pre-Gramscian and pre-Eco Italian philosophy, often disrespected by Northern […]

Yes, I know you’re all tired of reading stuff about Pullman. No one’s that interested really. We know this since “The Golden Compass” is not faring as well as expected at the box office.
However, I can’t resist posting some of the recent review of the film in L’Osservatore Romano, they are so spot-on IMHO:

“It’s […]

Here’s a trend in several recent big-budget motion pictures: licensing stock footage from the BBC!

BBC Motion Gallery, stock footage arm of BBC Worldwide, most recently licensed 10 minutes of material for use in Universal Pictures‘ drama American Gangster.
American Gangster follows on the heels of several major feature film productions that have used footage […]

November 30th, Kodak unveiled its new line of Vision 3 film stocks which improve the already spectacular latitude of their Vision 2 stocks. Every filmmaker (and video guys in recovery) should read the specs on these film stocks (click on the image above to go to the Kodak web page).
While top-flight digital-imaging cameras like […]

Yes, there is another world out there for all you central Penn film & digital media mavens! I invite you to take a peek at Serangoon Road … here!
It’d be nice to be in Singapore right now …

We now finally have some revisions on our Communications Department Film Concentration Page, including links to some of our students’ films made over the past three years:
Click here to view the Film & Digital Media Concentration Page
Take a look!